skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always seen this saying as being more about vague and general aspects of life as compared to professions and subjects where competency can actually be measured in any real way.

Like when it comes to living their life as an independent adult, no one would really know what they're doing, since everyone's situations are different enough and the markers of 'success' are vague enough that there is no one answer. Or maybe politics/running a country, where again, the only real goal anyone has is 'make the world better in some way' and everyone heavily disagrees on what 'better' looks like or how it can be achieved.

On the other hand, I'd guess a pro athlete would have some idea what they're doing when it comes to their sport of choice, and a doctor would know at least something about medicine and how to treat illnesses. I don't think the saying is usually used much in these contexts.
I can’t speak directly for deadprogram and the status of his projects, but I know much of his activity of late has been working in this same space, but in Go:

* Gobot (https://gobot.io/)

* TinyGo (https://tinygo.org/)

* GoCV (https://gocv.io/)
The idea of poking holes in official dogma is novel for the right, and so the reactionaries have adopted the "red pill" symbolism. This causes many to associate the two, especially those newly enamored with the concept after having seen through their first layer of the memetic prison.
Tell me you're vulnerable to SQL injection without telling me you're vulnerable to SQL injection.
If you want birds, grow plants that support caterpillars.

It takes thousands of caterpillars to raise a nest of baby birds to fledglings. (This is true even for seed-eating birds.) Those caterpillars don't come from thin air.
AM is something I don't normally use, but I depend on in situations like that. It's more reliable than the internet by far too.
But is there a wider problem if people stop discussing controversial but very important topics on the Internet in general? Can something be done to fence off the low quality comments, without removing them from public view? Instead of outright banning political controversy?
It's also terribly annoying when I've found a page through a search engine and the site decides that I don't want that language. Navigates me to the language of my accept-language, decides that's on a different domain which is managed by a different team/CMS and doesn't have or can't find the page I was looking for in the first place.
Tangential, but the line saying: "smiles are always free" reminds me of the often overlooked cost of emotional labour performed especially by the service industry. We should also acknowledge this small thing.
I think you know somewhat more about this than me ;-)

I just remember the win2k source code, the Exchange team, the mass rollout of win2k boxes, and the .NET beta of course, as you mentioned.
The unhelpful behavior is too many people coming out to try to see the zebra which scare it into running away.

How other than closing the trail while they search could they realistically target that behavior? Put checkpoints at all the entrances and only let people in who could prove they had planned their outing before the zebra got loose? Require people to attend a lecture on not scaring the zebra and pass a test showing they understood before they can use the trail?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40237855

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I didn't bother with emulating CP/M itself, just the Z80 CPU+RAM and disk interface, which I made compatible with Udo Munk's z80pack. I was able to use the stock z80pack BIOS/BDOS so I didn't have any issue getting it to run.

You are going deep!
> Maybe they are required to preserve existing documents, but not required to create new evidence against themselves.

When they do a chat, that creates evidence. When the chat is deleted, evidence is destroyed. (This isn't the first case they’ve been sanctioned over this behavior, either.)
It doesn’t matter how your predictor works, whether it’s a scientific theory, a statistical model, or a magic oracle. You can always perfectly convert its predictions into compression using entropy coding. The conversion process is black-box.
Examples are good in docs. But documentation that's only made of examples and tutorials... not so much.

Thanks for Caddy btw. Neat little tool.
As far as I can tell I pay 0% and $0.00 to transfer from Paypal to my bank account (they added an instant transfer with a 1.75% fee as a sucker option). I thought that paragraph was about "aha, if they pay from buyer's paypal wallet A to seller's paypal wallet B, we can deduct our 3% plus 30 cent fee, but just do the transaction as a database update which costs us nothing"?
> Im not debating what countries do and what services they choose to provide, but what their rights are.

Yes, and you steadfastly refuse to believe what those rights actually are, despite my telling and showing you multiple times, because somehow that would result in slavery or for some other incomprehensible reason.

Article 19 of the Finnish constitution:

>The public authorities shall promote the right of everyone to housing

https://fra.europa.eu/en/law-reference/constitution-finland-...
It needs the tooth nucleation point to exist at the moment: it's where the truth starts growing from during development.
TURN and P2P are incompatible things.
> Airbnb for GPUs is fairly accurate for this model of a marketplace where people let out their GPUs for others to rent.

Minimum rent 1 day? $100 cleaning fee? No quality control? Spy cameras in the bedrooms?
My 2c:

I think that symbols are useful in this case and that the number of potentially ambiguous/offensive situations is low enough that scrapping flags is worse overall.

Bathroom signs come to mind. Yes, not all men wear trousers, yes, not all women wear skirts, if you swing that way, perhaps not all men are men. Some of us don't even have legs. But you know what it means, it's standardised, and it saves us all a ton of time not having to do a double take at a clever bathroom door with an art project on it, in the same way that a flag in the corner of a webpage immediately draws the eye.
I think their problem is not performance of JS, but efficiency. V8 is relatively resource heavy and if your microcontroller can run it - it is too powerful for what it is.
> "smiles are always free"

you're not wrong; nothing is free: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_mask_syndrome

> ...subjects develop depression and physical illness as a result of prolonged, unnatural smiling.
https://archive.ph/vNkly
If we're going to talk about emergency communications, let's go full send. "Come the bomb", I'm thinking I'm going to want short wave, 10M (citizens band), FRS. Rather than relying on a few huge transmitters, I'm imagining we'll want to make use of the ham radio equipment that is distributed around the world.

Honestly, in my 35+ years of driving, I've used CB/FRS way more often than AM.
Forefox for android also doesn't support it yet.
Not an astronomer but have an advanced degree in physical science, very experienced with optics and engineering, and incredibly interested in the science. I looked into technical positions at a couple of giant telescope projects (not VRO) and got nowhere. I did speak with someone informally about it and was told that the science community was pretty decoupled from the instrument and facility builders.
I think "unlearning" is not the actual goal; we don't want the model to stick its proverbial head in the sand. Being unaware of racism is different from not producing racist content (and, in fact, one could argue that it is necessary to know about racism if one wishes to inhibit producing racist content; I remember in elementary school certain kids thought it would be funny to teach one of the special-ed kids to parrot offensive sentences).
My latest gripe in this category - opentelemetry.
Thousands of pages. Very little about actually achieving basic common workflows.
IMO it depends on whether you enjoy interacting with people. Yes if you are extravert and not if introvert.

I absolutely don't want to interact with any humans I don't know, and TBH prefer as few as possible with those that I have to know. I prefer low level programming jobs. I prefer live in a remote area and would rather pay the premium of hiring people to do the jobs instead of asking around for help.

The only exception is with people who are excellent at low level programming.
I often can't even consent, because I don't even know what button would be "Yes sure I'll sell my soul to you for no consideration that sounds great".
We've been batting that since forever. Having a 3 phase inverter switching 500 Volts at a few kHz does tend to radiate a bit. But it can be controlled and has been so far.
> Google seems to be arguing that chats are different than other documents (informal and ephemeral, I guess?) and default auto-delete is reasonable for them.

My company has a default auto-delete for our email Inbox. Yet, we have all been trained to retain the emails (by moving them to a folder) if notified of a relevant legal event. I don't know if in practice I have to manually save them or whether IT will just disable autodelete on my account. In any case, the message is clear: Autodelete is not permissible under such circumstances.

Sorry Google. Nice try.
The Tesla integrated climate/vehicle control/entertainment system is absolutely fine by Silicon Valley standards, far better than CarPlay and Android, and leaps and bounds better than other manufacturers' poor implementations of these features (integrated or not.)

You could make the argument that "physical buttons are safer," but that doesn't mean the UI that accompanied these buttons was that great.

Most vehicles pre-touchscreen had vehicle control functions on shitty jog wheels or arrow buttons on the steering wheel (maybe with a 7 segment display, maybe an LCD.)
I used to use Novamin containing toothpastes, but now there is a new compound which is much better, biomin:

https://www.biomin.co.uk/
our saliva already contains hydroxyapatite. What's the reasoning behind including it in a toothpaste? Saliva doesn't contain enough?
I've heard and read the same. I noticed this review of studies which seems to indicate benefits are not as strongly present as word-of-mouth reputation may indicate.

I suppose if it was an unambiguously beneficial compound, American toothpaste manufacturers would have been all over it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068624/
The point is that someone must define what "misinformation" is. "Reality" is often open to interpretation.
Love it when LinkedIn bleeds into HN.
Another company (Revisalt, an university spinoff in Freiberg/Germany) claims that time and cost for producing such chemical strengthened glass has been much improved:

https://www.cfh.de/en/neues-investment-revisalt-gmbh/

https://revisalt.com/en/
Feels a bit absurd to try to lay the blame at the feet of 11 year olds, when adults routinely demonstrate the same behavior.

The latest example of KSP2 is imo a great example, announced in 2019 for release in 2020, delayed several times to go on to launch into a $50 'early access' early last year with far less functionality than the original game and worse bugs and architectural issues. Despite all the glaring warning signs, so many people ate up the promises. They delivered one basic feature in 6 months (reentry heating). Yet the 'trust' from otherwise smart adults remained. It seems they only finally noticed this past week, when the studio making the game was shut down. Now they expect refunds despite all the warnings Steam has against buying early access games based on future promises.
I do think that it is an interesting thought - even if I don't necessarily agree.

If you go to any home improvement store, you'll see walls of insect-killing products; most appear highly toxic. Many people also exhibit overly fearful reactions to insects (or snakes, for that matter).

The tradeoff is not between having or not having roses/tomatoes/beans, but should you go out of your way to take out all insects with the most toxic means possible?

I read the article as more of a wake-up call and a bit of education, suggesting that maybe there is beauty and value in life in general, beyond us humans deciding what is valuable and what is not.
I genuinely don’t know the answer but I can see it being more complicated than “OpenAI purposefully acquired and trained on NYT articles”.

If Stack Overflow collects a bunch of questions and comments and expose them as a big dataset licensed as Creative Commons but it actually contains a quite bit of copyrighted content, whose responsibility is it to validate copyright violations in that data? If I use something licensed as CC in good faith and it turns out the provider or seller of that content had no right to relicense it, am I culpable? Is this just a new lawsuit where I can seek damages for the lawsuit I just lost?
It’s not stealing to make and use copies of data that is published to the entire web for anyone to see and download.

By that damaged logic, Google is “stealing” the entire web’s data by making a copy of it.
Congrats on the sale! Interesting to make a few pages and then sell it.

Sure, assuming the site will continue... my email is in my profile.
Alright, please link me to an exhaustive list of Jinja filters supported by Ansible out of the box. I'll wait.

What you are given is https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playb... and you need basically to read/scan each example until you find what you need [1]. Do you call that good, especially when these are basically the only way of doing anything a little complex? That's a sure way of killing my flow and productivity in its tracks. I have been through this page in anger a dozen times, and I still have no idea what Ansible filters can or cannot do.

Also, using Google to find stuff is "cheating". The goal of documentation is to be able to use it as reference; if you need an external tool to find anything in it, that defeats its purpose a bit. When people wrote documentation books, they had to make sure it's usable, legible and efficient. These days apparently that's become lost art.

1: these examples are not even exhaustive, because they don't list all the builtin Jinja filters; chances are that what you need isn't listed on that page, but you should instead refer to https://tedboy.github.io/jinja2/templ14.html
Yep, I keep wondering why I'm not just using make and a text editor on a lot of projects, but make feels old and creaky for some unexamined reason so I'm looking around.

One of the major lessons I pulled out of that time is that most library authors will happily fix bugs or add features if you give them money. You can also just ask them to sell you a different license if FOSS ruins your plan.
I feel like I've seen three submissions in the past week that claimed to offer this exact thing.
Visiting the annual Braun collectors fair
I don’t think iPhones are marketed as general purpose computers either, yet here we are with the EU now regulating iOS and soon iPadOS.
Well, it's a particularly inefficient use of a delicate camera for a purpose for which simpler, more resilient, more purpose-appripriate tools exist.
"This is factually incorrect, because AM is incredibly inefficient."

What have said that's factually incorrect (please be specific)?

Why is AM is incredibly inefficient?

People used AM very effectively throughout the 20th Century to communicate around the world. My example of communicating half way around the world on three watts of AM is hardly inefficient. Frankly, it's truly remarkable.

What I was talking about had nothing to do with modulation schemes. It had to do with the ease and practicability of AM radio especially when technical support infrastructure is minimal and that includes expertise/technical personnel (there many no be any in certain emergencies).

Incidentally, digital modes have their place and I've no argument with that, but I'd take issue with your broad statement about "the huge advantages in weak signal performance". Would you explain precisely what you mean? The info in your links isn't helpful here.

BTW, I got my amateur ticket when I was 15 in high school many decades ago, I'm very familiar with how the amateur movement works and with the tech that we use.
For anything more advanced than a simple easing function or some basic keyframes on one or two channels you'll quickly run into the limitations of this approach.

I've been using Theatre.js the last few years and really loving it. It's a library divided into two parts; one is a studio UI with a timeline for editing keyframes and bezier curves, and the other is a runtime for taking those keyframes and interpolating values in relation to a timeline. Try it for anything that requires coordinated animations.

https://www.theatrejs.com/
How much do these kind of services pay the GPU owners? Before I sign up and add my nodes I need to know if it will be worth it considering I'm paying the power to run it, depreciation, etc.
Seriously, What Is Intelligence?
Interesting. Could you link to any of them?
In my experience the short answer is that there are no declarative build tools for C or C++.

The longer answer is that there are no declarative build tools because all the build tools aim to support all the insane build requirements of existing C or C++ projects. At that point embedding a turing complete scripting language actually makes for simpler build descriptions than some massive declarative system trying to handle all the corner cases.

Of course, that raises the question: why don't any C or C++ build tools limit themselves to some sane subset of build requirements? That, I don't have a good answer for.
As said they have the same problems, and a lot less options to do anything about it. It is different kool-aid, but still just kool-aid.

If you really want secure and private, get a dumb phone, and just use it as a phone. Anything else, use linux that you can actually control and audit.
My fees are very reasonable, but unsurprisingly the contract is highly pedantic.
Better Siri is coming: what Apple's research says about its AI plans
I usually feed all the documentation to an llm and ask the question to the llm that fetches the info with rag. For example:

> how do i configure Traefik to proxy traffic to two backend services?

Configuring Traefik to proxy traffic to multiple backend services is a common use case. You can achieve this by defining multiple entry points and routers in Traefik's configuration, each pointing to a different backend service. Here's a basic example of how you can configure Traefik to proxy traffic to two backend services:

yaml

# traefik.yaml

# Enable API and Dashboard
api:
dashboard: true

# Define entry points
entryPoints:
web:
address: ":80"
app1:
address: ":8081"
app2:
address: ":8082"

[...more stuff...]
> I see now that we're using the word "illusion" in different ways and talking past each other.

At its core, illusionism is the general position that our qualitative experience is not what it appears to be. That could mean it might just be something else that's incompatible with materialism, but most philosophers take the stricter position that materialism holds, and thus subjective experience doesn't really exist.

> I will just point out that if a scientific theory denies the existence of a thing that obviously exists

Life obviously exists, and people simply couldn't fathom how living matter could emerge from non-living matter, and so proposed vitalism. It died with progressive elaboration of the mechanics of living cells, thus vindicating materialism. I think exactly this same process is currently happening with consciousness, and neuroscience is currently exploring these kinds of models:

A conceptual framework for consciousness, https://pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116933119

Finally, I would be very hesitant to claim that something does or does not exist simply because you perceive it or don't perceive it. I could put an object in your blindspot and you'd swear up and down that nothing was there. Our perceptions are inherently flawed, but still useful in evolutionary terms, and the same would apply to our perceptions of qualitative experience. Dennett formed his position after studying neuroscience extensively, so I urge everyone to take it more seriously.
Dan Davies' book on frauds has a whole chapter on scams where you open a business, buy goods and pay in cash for a year or so, then order lots of goods on credit, sell them, take the money and run. Cryptocurrency people call their version rug pulling.
It’s amazing to me that it cannot be interpreted as obstruction of justice to say “don’t record illegal conversations”
> having a competent mechanic completely overhaul and inspect the most critical safety system on a bike for €150 seems like a pretty good deal

Absolutely, and I was happy to pay for the brakes to be sorted!

€150 is a fairly substantial repair cost relative to the new cost; remember that this is a child's bike suitable for an 8-10 year-old.

Having all the brakes replaced on a car might well cost thousands, but cars cost tens of thousands new.
They are just trying to find a way to plausibly declare successful removal of copyrighted and/or illegal material without discarding weights.

GPT-4 class models reportedly costs $10-100m to train, and that's too much to throw away for Harry Potter or Russian child porn scrapes that could later reproduce verbatim despite representing <0.1ppb or whatever minuscule part of dataset.
Here's how they cast an 8m class mirror at the University of Arizona. This is for the Giant Magellan Telescope, not the VRO, but it also did that one. \

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-lBKuHqHk0

Grinding and polishing is its own art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebqeygLdBYc

None of this looks easy to me.
The snake fear may be a deeply-rooted instinctual fear common to all primates! (Along with fear of falling...)
Just because something can be found on the internet does not mean you can sell it without permission.
I was at the clapperboard for Orson Welles' drunk wine commercial (2021)
As far as I can tell, this isn't an issue with the specific database itself, but the standard they are required to record geographic data in, which the end of the article mentions as "BS 7666".

https://www.agi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/BS7666Guid...

# Standard data types used in BS 7666
CharacterString: a sequence of alphanumeric characters
...

If I had to guess, alphanumeric is interpreted as [0-9a-z].

The sign printer probably expects this format when printing signs for the government, or worse, has a contract that says the government must provide this standard format for the sign information.

So it's just a government mandated database schema... I don't think that's any better of a reasoning though lol
> Wikipedia uses a “文Ａ” icon; IMHO far better than a flag.

It's not exactly suggestive of a language selector. 文 means "text". "A" doesn't mean anything at all.
I've fixed the form sizing now, that was something I planned to but forgot to implement. It was a simple fix.

For the language filtering, I'll work on that.

Thanks!
The headline seems a bit sensationalized.

From what I can tell Ancestry has a webcrawler that respects robots.txt files, crawls publically available webpages, and they offer search engine results that link to the original page.

This seems exactly like what Google and every other search engine does?
The point is that Option in Rust doesn't have undefined behavior in any case, even if the values aren't known at compile time. Exhaustiveness is always checked at compile time, unlike C++ where operator* offers an escape hatch where nothing is checked in non-constexpr contexts.

"Make everything constexpr" isn't a real solution to UB, in the same way that "make all functions pure" isn't a solution for managing side effects.

Not adding UB to your APIs, on the other hand, is a real solution.